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Las Vegas There was a time not so long ago when the National Horseplayers Championship was an immovable fixture the week before the Super Bowl. “In hindsight I’m happy it wasn’t held this past weekend,” said Keith Chamblin, chief operating officer of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. “We may have had some cancellations because of the storm in the northeast.” Weather is the least of the NTRA’s challenges in staging the nation’s biggest tournament for racehorse handicappers. Moved three years ago to the week after the Super Bowl, it was supposed to happen this month ...

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association had big plans for the 50th anniversary of the Eclipse Awards. However, its lengthy list of ideas to celebrate the half-century of the best in Thoroughbred racing and breeding was tossed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Put a large group of people together in an awards ceremony setting? Forget about it. Plan B, producing a “virtual show” with the entire program being shot and produced in advance and shown as if it were a live event, was one of many winners the evening of Jan. 28. It just might be a template for award presentations in the future.

Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Authentic was honored as Horse of the Year at the 50th annual Eclipse Awards on Thursday night. The ceremony was held virtually because of the...

Sponsored by: Frank's Rockette wins the G2 Gallant Bloom Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said he has no long-term 2021 goals for multiple Grade 2 winner Frank's Rockette, adding it's simply one step at a time. That first step begins with the $150,000 American Beauty Stakes for older female sprinters Saturday at Oaklawn. The 6-furlong race marks a homecoming of sorts for Frank's Rockette, a homebred for prominent North Little Rock, Ark., businessman Frank Fletcher who finished second in the $100,000 Purple Martin Stakes for 3-year-old filly sprinters last April at Oaklawn. Frank's Roc...

Moquett Emotional After Whitmore Named Champion Sprinter Of 2020 Sponsored by: Three-time Bill Shoemaker Award winner Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Whitmore following the Breeders' Cup Sprint Oaklawn's top male sprinter last year can now be called the best nationally, too. The ultra-popular Whitmore, a seven-time Oaklawn stakes winner co-owned and trained by Ron Moquett of Hot Springs, was named the country's champion male sprinter of 2020 during the 50th annual Eclipse Awards ceremony Thursday night. Whitmore received 132 first-place votes from members of the three consolidated voting bloc...